DataTalk

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Dr. Arthur I. Miller about AI-powered creativity – and his new book "The Artist in the Machine."

Dr. Arthur I. Miller is an emeritus professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. He has lectured and written extensively on the history and philosophy of 19th- and 20th-century science and technology, cognitive science, scientific creativity, and the relation between art and science.

Miller is a fellow and former chairman of the American Physical Society and the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants from organizations including the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities

He is the author of Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art and other books including Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc. His latest book is entitled The Artist In the Machine.

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In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Peter Gray at NTT about Tour de France & Cycling Analytics.

Peter Gray is the Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology Group: Sport at NTT. He is responsible for overseeing the strategy, design, and delivery of sports technology solutions including Dimension Data's technology partnership with the Tour de France, and Team Dimension Data.

Prior to this, Peter was a Director for Analytics and Information Services within Oakton, an Australian based technology consulting firm that was acquired by Dimension Data in 2014. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Chakri Cherukuri at Bloomberg about ways machine learning is used in financial decisions.

Chakri Cherukuri is a senior researcher in the Quantitative Financial Research Group at Bloomberg LP. His research interests include quantitative portfolio management, algorithmic trading strategies, and applied machine learning. Chakri has extensive experience in numerical computing and software development.

Previously, he built analytical tools for the trading desks at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. He holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MS in computer science from Arizona State University, and an MS in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

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In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Amit Golan, CEO and Co-Founder of Minute.ly, about ways his company is using artificial intelligence to improve and optimize the video editing process.

Amit Golan is CEO and Co-Founder of Minute.ly, a leading video optimization platform for publishers. Amit is a serial entrepreneur having started several other companies in the tech space.

He founded Minute.ly in 2014 with the aim of driving video engagement and revolutionizing the online video consumption process into a more financially rewarding and compelling content source. Amit leads the team at Minute.ly in developing new products to help the media industry optimize video strategy and revenue.

Amit previously founded Scratch IL, which is a software that teaches young children to code. It's currently implemented in 30 schools in Israel. Amit is currently a mentor at Google Campus specializing in Product Development. He has been a mentor at Google for past 4 and a half years and he has provided mentorship to entrepreneurs at WeWork in Israel as well. He is a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program, and he holds a B.A. in Interactive Communications and digital media from IDC Herzliya.

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In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Laura E. Ribeiro about data science and the quantified self. This data science video series is part of Experian's effort to help people understand how data-powered decisions can help organizations develop innovative solutions.

Laura E. Ribeiro is a Keynote Speaker, Co-Founder of The Qube, Quantum Technology Company. She works on information security, bringing truly secure communication, scalable architecture and efficient solving of complex tasks on decentralized quantum networks protocols. She delivers powerful messages covering topics on innovation and leadership. As businesses continue to respond to digital disruption, the ability to spearhead innovation has become the key to her success. Follow her on Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

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Javier Campos is the Head of the Experian DataLabs for UK&I and EMEA. He oversees innovation with an emphasis on the development of new products and services. Pioneering application of Artificial Intelligence in mobile, voice, fraud, credit, marketing, social media, digital advertising, and healthcare. Javier is also Advisor to Fenestra, that provides the global advertising market with a new platform using distributed ledger technology.

He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Javier has 26+ years' experience globally within the Finance, AI, Market Research, Media and Technology fields including serving as Global Chief Technology Officer at Kantar-WPP, Havas Media and CIO at GroupM-WPP.

You can hear him talk about how data can be used to help businesses and consumers at the AI & Big Data Expo 2019 event.

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In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Anand Rao about leading data science projects.

This data science video series is part of Experian's effort to help people understand how data-powered decisions can help organizations develop innovative solutions

Anand Rao is a Global & US Artificial Intelligence and US Data & Analytics Leader at PwC US

Anand Rao is a Principal with PwC's US Advisory practice, with over 24 years of industry and consulting experience, helping senior executives structure, solve and manage critical issues facing their organizations. He has worked extensively on business, technology, and analytics issues across a wide range of industry sectors including Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Aerospace & Defense, across US, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His work has included behavioral economics, simulation modeling, global growth strategies, marketing, sales, and distribution strategies, online, mobile, social media strategies, customer experience, multi-channel integration, risk management and compliance, large scale program mobilization and management. Before his consulting careers, Anand was the Chief Research Scientist at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, boutique research, and software house.

Anand has also co-edited four books on Intelligent Agents and has published over fifty papers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in major journals, conferences, and workshops. Anand was awarded the Most Influential Paper Award for the Decade in 2007 from the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) organization. He is a frequent speaker at a number of industry and academic forums. Anand holds an MSc(Tech) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Sydney, where he was awarded the University Postgraduate Research Award. He was also awarded an MBA from Melbourne Business School with Distinction.

In this week's #DataTalk, we spoke with Lexy Kassan about her love of math, medieval renaissance studies, blogging about data, leading data science projects and hosting the Data Science Ethics podcast.

Lexy Kassan is a data scientist and general advocate for math and stats to anyone who will listen. She currently shares her numerical passion as Product Owner and Community of Practice Lead for Advanced Analytics at CCG in Tampa, Florida.

Professionally, Lexy has been in marketing and analytics for most of her career helping big brands solve big problems with big data. She is also the host of the Data Science Ethics podcast.

Personally, Lexy loves dogs, Geocaching, and chasing thought experiments down rabbit holes. Her current pet projects include a website all about eggs and a podcast on Data Science Ethics. Favorite languages: SQL, Python, and French.

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In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Dr. Kartik Hosanagar about his new book, "A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence." how algorithms are shaping our lives.

This data science video series is part of Experian's effort to help people understand how data-powered decisions can help organizations develop innovative solutions.

Kartik Hosanagar is the John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business and a Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Kartik's research work focuses on the digital economy, in particular, the impact of analytics and algorithms on consumers and society, Internet media, Internet marketing, and e-commerce.

Kartik has been recognized as one of the world's top 40 business professors under 40. He is a ten-time recipient of MBA or Undergraduate teaching excellence awards at the Wharton School. His research has received several best paper awards. Kartik cofounded and developed the core IP for Yodle Inc, a venture-backed firm that was acquired by Web.com. Yodle was listed by Inc. Magazine among America's fastest-growing private companies. He is a co-founder of SmartyPal Inc. He has served on the advisory boards of Milo (acq. by eBay) and Monetate and is involved with many other startups as either an investor or board member. His past consulting and executive education clients include Google, American Express, Citi and others. Kartik was a co-host of the SiriusXM show The Digital Hour. He currently serves as a department editor at the journal Management Science and has previously served as a Senior Editor at the journals Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly.

Kartik graduated at the top of his class with a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Information Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS, Pilani), India, and he has an MPhil in Management Science and a Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

Outside of Wharton, he likes to make short films, start companies, write books, and spend time with his kids.

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Michiel Rauws about conversational AI chatbots for mental health.

This data science video series is part of Experian's effort to help people understand how data-powered decisions can help organizations develop innovative solutions.

Michiel Rauws used to be a mental health patient 10 years ago, and that is why he founded X2 AI – a company that provides emotional support through conversations with an AI Chatbot. Over 8,000,000 people have paid access to the service, and thousands of employers. 6 published studies, 4 in review, and over 10 ongoing studies are proving the efficacy of the service. X2 has customers in three verticals: 1. Employers / EAPs 2. Healthcare Systems 3. Higher Education – and work with companies such as IBH (EAP) Corp, County of Monterey, Northwestern University, and AON Hewitt. Michiel holds the position of chief executive officer, after previously gaining experience in corporate finance, risk insurance, and innovation working for a variety of companies, including IBM and Marsh / Mercer.